Kareem Chehayeb

Two women from the Iranian Red Crescent Society stand as a thick plume of smoke from a U.S.-Israeli strike on an oil storage facility late Saturday rises in the sky in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, March 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran names Khamenei’s son to succeed him, signaling no letup in war as oil prices surge

March 9, 2026 at 6:25 a.m.

Iran named the hard-line Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his late father as supreme leader, signaling no letup in the war launched by the U.S. and Israel.

Pope Leo XIV arrives for a meeting with young people in the Square in front of the Maronite Patriarchate of Antioch in Bkerke, Lebanon, Monday, Dec. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

Pope Leo XIV sends message of support to southern Lebanon as he ends 1st foreign trip

December 2, 2025 at 3:26 p.m.

Pope Leo XIV prayed Tuesday at the site of a deadly 2020 Beirut port explosion that has become a symbol of dysfunction and official impunity and called for justice to...

Lebanese Civil Defence workers inspect the damage at an apartment hit during an Israeli airstrike on Dahiyeh in the southern suburb of Beirut, Sunday Nov. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Israel targets senior Hezbollah official in first strike on Beirut in months

November 23, 2025 at 11:27 a.m.

Israel’s military says it has killed senior Hezbollah militant Haytham Tabtabai in its strike in Beirut on Sunday.

Huge smoke rises up from an oil facility facility after it appeared to have been hit by an Israeli strike Saturday, in southern Tehran, Iran, Sunday, June 15, 2025. (AP Photo)

Airports close across the Mideast as the Israel-Iran conflict shutters the region’s airspace

June 17, 2025 at 12:17 p.m.

After Israeli strikes landed near the hotel where he was staying in the Iranian province of Qom, Aimal Hussein desperately wanted to return home. But the 55-year-old Afghan businessman couldn’t...

A Lebanese man checks a polling list for his name before voting at a polling station during municipal elections in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Battered by war and economic crisis, Lebanon holds first local elections in almost 10 years

May 4, 2025 at 1:34 p.m.

Lebanese voted Sunday in the country’s first local elections in almost a decade, months after a U.S.-brokered ceasefire ended a war between Israel and Hezbollah.

U.N peacekeepers hold their flag in Blida, a Lebanese border village with Israel in south Lebanon, Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

White House says Israel and Lebanon have extended deadline for troop withdrawal to Feb. 18

January 26, 2025 at 4:40 p.m.

The White House said Sunday that Israel and Lebanon have agreed to extend the deadline for Israeli troops to depart southern Lebanon until Feb. 18, after Israel requested more time...

A woman holds up a poster of the slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah during a ceremony marking death anniversary of the late commander of the Iran’s Revolutionary Guard expeditionary Quds Force, Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in a U.S. drone attack in 2020, at the Imam Khomeini grand mosque in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Jan. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed last year inside the war operations room, aide says

January 5, 2025 at 12:32 p.m.

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli airstrike last year while inside the fighter group’s war operations room, according to new details Sunday disclosed by a senior Hezbollah...

Portraits of missing people whose families say they were taken by the Assad regime are plastered across a monument in Damascus, Syria, Saturday, Dec. 28, 2024 (AP Photo/Mosa’ab Elshamy)

An Israeli airstrike near the Syrian capital kills 11, war monitor says

December 29, 2024 at 12:40 p.m.

An Israeli airstrike in the outskirts of Damascus on Sunday killed 11 people, according to a war monitor, as Israel continues to target Syrian weapons and military infrastructure even after...

Safaa Haidous, carries her daughter Yara, 4, as she speaks with her husband Rawad Srour, who is stands on the roof of their family destroyed house, as they collect the remains of their belongings after they returned to Hanouiyeh village, southern Lebanon, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2024 following a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah that went into effect on Wednesday.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Israeli strikes hit southern Lebanon, but tense ceasefire holds

December 1, 2024 at 1:22 p.m.

Israeli jets Sunday launched an airstrike over a southern Lebanese border village, while troops shelled other border towns and villages still under Israeli control, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported.

Damaged vehicles seen in front of the Roman temples of Baalbek in eastern Lebanon, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Day 2 of Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire sees Israeli airstrike on Lebanon and scattered attacks

November 28, 2024 at 2:51 p.m.

Israel on Thursday carried out its first airstrike on Lebanon since a truce with Hezbollah announced this week, saying it targeted the militant group’s activity at a rocket storage facility...

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